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Does Proprietary Software Still Offer Protection of Intellectual Property in the Age of Machine Learning? -- A Case Study using Dual Energy CT Data
In the domain of medical image processing, medical device manufacturers
protect their intellectual property in many cases by shipping only compiled
software, i.e. binary code which can be executed but is difficult to be
understood by a potential attacker. In this paper, we investigate how well this
procedure is able to protect image processing algorithms. In particular, we
investigate whether the computation of mono-energetic images and iodine maps
from dual energy CT data can be reverse-engineered by machine learning methods.
Our results indicate that both can be approximated using only one single slice
image as training data at a very high accuracy with structural similarity
greater than 0.98 in all investigated cases.